Nehru Jacket Style Guide: Celebrity Fashion. Why is Hollywood too slow to embrace the Nehru jacket? It’s chic! It’s stylish! It emphasizes a manly man’s manly qualities. And yet we can count Hollywood celebrities and characters who wore the Nehru jacket with our hands.

You know what, we blame James Bond for this state of affairs. Before the James Bond producers dressed up their villains with Nehru jackets, famous celebrities like the Beatles, George Hamilton, and Sammy Davis Jr. were wearing Nehru jackets. After Nehru-jacket-wearing villains on James Bond became a thing, we no longer see any Hollywood celebrities wearing Nehru jackets. This despite the fact that it is really a cool and chic jacket that looks pretty good on men.

Did you know that Time Magazine named it among its Top Ten Political Fashion Statements? It had this to say about this fab outfit: “…the Nehru jacket is a descendant of the northern Indian achkan, a closed-neck, coatlike garment usually considered court dress for Indian nobility. Indeed, it was when the jacket was marketed to Western audiences that it took the “Nehru” title, the charismatic Prime Minister having popularized its style in public appearances during his tenure in government. Nehru wasn’t the only prominent figure associated with it; the minimalist aesthetic of the jacket inspired the likes of the Beatles (who wore the style at their Shea Stadium performance) as well as Sammy Davis Jr., who claimed to own more than 200 of the jackets.”

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